Getting ready...

For a few things...lets see...


Halloween is tomorrow and I still haven't gotten my fangs or fake blood, or the black face crayon so I can draw my whiskers for my day costume. I have about an hour and forty-five minutes worth of music on my NaNo playlist, but I'm thinking I may need to add more songs...I don't know, it's a whole month of listening to the same songs, I may get tired of them, and they may get desensitized. We'll see...I finished a book last night (Death Perception by Victoria Laurie) you can read my review here if you like.


I think that's about it, I also want to make a quick comment about my glasses. I've had them for about 3 years now and I've worn them hundreds of times. But for some reason everyone has decided to compliment me on them these last couple of weeks. What's up with that? Did you just notice them, because that's just crazy, what were you looking at when you people talked to me?

NaNoWriMo

So it's that time of the year again (no not Halloween) NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Now I know what some of you are thinking, "She's never mentioned NaNo before." Well that's because I've never done it before (I'm a NaNo Virgin). I vaguely knew about it the last two years, but I was in Chachi-Land doing who knows what with my time. But this year I decided to do it, because I figured, if I can't write a 50,000 word novel (rough draft) during this month, with the time constraint, then I can't do it any other time. And this is something I need to know, because I want to be a published writer, and if I can't write a novel, then I'm just wasting my time, and my dream is only that...a dream.

I'm nervous as heck, but I know a few people that are doing it as well, and we will cheer eachother on. Hopefully I can make it, and I'm not as nervous as I was before, because I finally thought of what I could write about. Trust me I was mentally pacing back and forth trying to come up w/ a story idea. Here it is, my rather small synopsis for NaNoWriMo:

Jenny, recruited at the age of 8 by evil forces to become their queen, lost to them, has now been found after 10 years. Will Jenny succumb to the fate that was laid upon her so many years ago, or will the man that has recently become part of her life save her from the temptation she now faces?

Saw V

So I went to the movies last night to see Saw V, and it was good, really gory, yum, haha. But even though the movie was good, and I should be talking about it, I can't, because I need to talk about what happened BEFORE I saw the movie.

It was the weirdest, most absurd thing ever: We got IDed before we bought the tickets. OK that's the firs weird thing, then we got IDed by the girl taking the tickets (we already bought them, so obviously we're of age) then the teather was CROWDED. I swear I felt like I was at a Red Carpet event. Then to go INTO the specific theater where the movie was playing, we got IDed AGAIN. Are you serious??? You see we have the ticket, which means we got passed the ticket window (where we got IDed) and passed the ticket taker (where we got IDed AGAIN), how many times do you need to see the darn thing?

Lemme tell you, I've never been carded this many times in my life. I don't even get carded when I go to the liqour store...oh but to go see Saw, that's waaaaay more important. We MUST card for Saw, forget about cigs and beer, that's not important, we will never ask for ID there (which they never have for me) but for SAW ooooh, now THAT'S imperative. *eye roll* Whatever...

I just can't help but wonder...if I was a gray-haired old woman w/ a cane...would they stll need to see some ID???

Quick Update

Hello all, just wanted to stop by and tell you guys what's been going on...

Well my friend Ashley moves in with me today, she should actually be all set up by the time I get home from work. I'm kind of excited, though I love the solitude of living by myself, and though I was planning on turning that spare bedroom into a writing space, I'm glad she's moving in. The apartment is so big for just me, and I feel lonely and bored most days, and now I wont be! I'll have someone to talk to, and that's good good.


I've spent a good part of this week over at http://coffeetimeromance.com/board I joined last month, and I'd go really quick everyday to see what's going on, but these last couple of days I've practically moved in to the forums. It's so much fun, I'm meeting a lot of great people, and we all come together because we love books and love to read. It's a blast, and I'm really glad that CoffeeTime found me on myspace and sent me a friend request.


I haven't been working on my novel (eek) I'm afraid I'm going to do it again, I'm going to delete it. Aly hates when I do that (I do it a lot), and I kind of do too. I spent so much time working on it, I've written a couple of thousand words and it's going to suck to have to start over, but I just don't believe in the story, I don't believe in the characters, they don't call to me I don't know what to do honestly. I've had a whole bunch of ideas these last couple of nights just swimming in my head. And there's one in particular that I keep going back to...I don't know...maybe I should go with that, see where it takes me...


UPDATE: As I was writing this blog, I got a phone call from my best friend Virginia, who's down in Denver for AmeriCorps, and she's devistated! Apparently a guy kissed her, and she didn't stop it, and now she feels super horrible about it, because she has a boyfriend. She told him about it, I don't know what's going to happen but she's so scared. She's afraid she ruined her whole life, that her relationship is going to end, she feels like she's not worth anything, and it saddens me to hear that. I told her so too, I told her that people make mistakes, that we can only learn and grow from them. I told her not to make any rash decisions now, to take it one step at a time (because she wants to leave AmeriCorps and come back up here to deal with this). I hope things get straighten out, I love that girl so much, and a small part of me feels like interfering in on this and talking to her boyfriend, try to fix this for her. I'm usually not that type of person, I usually offer advice and a shoulder because who am I to tell her what to do? But I don't want her to leave AmeriCorps (when she's only been there about 2-3 weeks) and have her come back and then have her regret leaving in the first place. So I'm really tempted to try to sort this out for her, I just want her to be happy. But will I be able to jump right in the middle of something that is really none of my business? Seems a bit rude, and something I've never done before...

Up in Smoke by Katie MacAlister

I just wanted to take a few minutes of my time and write about Up in Smoke by Katie MacAlister. It's the second book in her Silver Dragon series (which is I guess stems from the Aisling Grey/Green Dragon series). It came out about 2 weeks ago, and I finished reading it a few days ago, and I want to burst! It left me in suspense, and I don't know how long till the next part comes out.

Anyway, if you haven't read this series (or the Aisling Grey) you really should. It's got your paranormals (Dragons, Guardians, Demons, Imps, Doppelgangers, etc.), it's got romance (really yummy sex scenes too, hehe). The books are just great, I also like the way she communicates with the readers. She writes in first person, and talks to us, not as if she were telling a story that already happened, but more as if we were there, and she's just making comments about what's going on, and what she's thinking.

Here's a little bit about Up in Smoke (I wont spoil anything I promise)

It continues about 6 months after May (a doppelganger and a wyvern's mate to Gabriel, wyvern of the silver dragons) sacrifices herself for Gabriel and the sept, and ends up stuck in Abaddon becoming a consort to the demon she was bound to when she was first created. So May and Gabriel have to figure out how to get her out of Abaddon without releasing the demon to the mortal world. Of course in between all of this there's a whole bunch of drama involving dragon politics. With the Black dragon trying to make their sept official again, and fighting with the Silver dragons (because there's some history between both septs, which I wont talk about), the Blue dragons are in the middle of a civil war with eachother, the leader of the Red dragons is stuck somewhere in Abaddon (I won't say how she got there, but I will say it happened in the Aisling Grey series), and so on and so forth. It sounds a bit overwhelming, but trust me, it's all laid out neatly.

So come on folks, hop to it, buy the book, read it. Support this great author, who wants to her book to do well.

Surfin Bird

This is probably by far the funniest Family Guy EVER

Blast from the past

So there I was, just minding my own business, bored, surfing through myspace, when I encountered a picture of a girl. Now to anybody else, this was just another girl, she looked normal, nothing special about her...but to me, she was special. I had one of those Phoebe (from Charmed) moments; I gasped and my vision was instantly transported 14 years in the past. Images rapidly filled my vision, starting from when I was 8, all the way till I was 14 years old. This girl that I stumbled across on myspace, was my childhood best friend, Stephanie.

I couldn't believe it! Imagine my surprise, I haven't seen her in 8 years and there she was. Well I instantly clicked her picture, but of course, her profile was private. Oh well, that's not gonna stop me, tentatively I clicked on the send message button and I wrote her a message. Truth be told, I wasn't sure she was going to recognize me or remember me, but boy was I wrong. She seemed as excited to see me (virtually) as I was to see her. She wanted to know all about what I was up to, even asked how my mom was.

It feels good to talk to her again, she was such a big part of my life, and truth be told, still is. I am the person I am today partly because of her. She's three years older than I am and I looked up to her so much growing up, I wanted to be just like her. And I grew up to be a little bit like her :)

Wow...Stephanie...I learned English because of her, hehe. I moved to CT from Puerto Rico when I was 6 years-old, but I lived in a hispanic community and went to a hispanic school, so I hadn't realized that I wasn't in a Spanish-speaking country. Until I was 8, when I used to sit on my front steps and watch the girl that lived across the street play. I wanted to be her friend so bad for some strange reason, but I was shy. I told my mom and she told me to just go over and say hi, but I was too shy for that, so my mom grabbed me by the hand and took me across the street where Stephanie was playing with her upstairs neighbor Carlitos. My mom didn't speak any English either, but thankfully Carlitos was hispanic and translated for her. Well Stephanie said I could play with them, but I realized then that she didn't speak Spanish. So everyday we would play together, but Carlitos was always with us, translating back and forth for us. I wanted to know what she was saying so bad, I wanted to be able to communicate with her on my own, and tell her things that were private to girls, because even though we didn't understand eachother, we grew really fond of eachother. So with my mind made me up, I went to my grandma (who was half German half Italian) to teach me to speak English. Determined, and with a set goal-to be able to speak to Stephanie without Carlito's help-I was able to learn enough English to have a conversation with her alone in about 2 months. And from then on we were inseparable. She helped me improve my English everyday, and so did her mom and grandfather. I spent all my time with her; after school (after I did my homework of course) I was with her. On the weekends, I spent the nights at her house.

She exposed me to a new world. New clothing styles, new t.v. shows, new music, etc. A lot of things I like today (like I said before) have been her influence

1. No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tori Amos, Metallica, Pearl Jam, and other music artists.

2. Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, South Park, My So Called Life, Aeon Flux, and many other shows

3. Drop Dead Fred, Interview with the Vampire, Romeo & Juliet, The Frighteners, many other movies

Well you guys get where I'm going here, haha. The girl influenced me tremendously. I'm really glad I found her, and I'm glad that she's doing good.

Siiiick

This last week has been yucky! I've been bedridden with strep throat, and it sucks balls man. First my throat felt like I had swallowed a whole bunch of needles, I couldn't swallow (not even my own saliva), then I got a cough, runny and stuffed up nose, then Thursday night I got a horrible fever. Agh, but I think that fever was just like a goodbye thing (I hope) because yesterday I woke up w/ no fever, my throat doesn't hurt that much, and I felt slightly better. Now I'm all flemy (yuuuuck) but that's good because it means I can just spit my sickness out, hehe.

Anyway, I just thought I'd catch everyone up on what I've been up to. I've been too sick to write anything, although I've been lurking around. :)